| The purpose of this study was to determine if female college students substance use could be predicted from three psychological concepts: self-efficacy, resilience, perceived parental support. Female undergraduate students (N=43) were given four self-report measures about their substance use and the three concepts. The measures provided to the participants were the Core Alcohol and Drug Survey, Coping Self-Efficacy Scale, Perceptions of Parents Scale, and Resilience Scale. The researchers hypothesized that self-efficacy, resilience and perceived parental support individually would be able to predict substance use and that the three constructs combined would be a better predictor of substance use. These hypotheses are consistent with separate research studies on self-efficacy, resilience and perceived parental support (Bandura,1986; Larm, Hodgins, Tengstrom, & Larsson, 2010 and Borawski, Levers-Landis, Lovegreen, & Trapi, 2003). Results indicated that self-efficacy and resilience were not able to predict substance use among the participants. While one dimension of the Perceptions of Parenting Scale, mother's autonomy support was able to predict substance use. |
